Chapter 189

Lyra's POV

Eyes still on her as I watched her leave first, I decided to turn around and then my body collided with someone else's; hard and wet were the only words I could use to describe him.

"I'm sorry," his hands grabbed my shoulders as he helped to sturdy my footing that had been made disrupted upon the skin contact.

I wriggled away from his grip and then stood on my ground, shaking my shoulders and nodding my head. "thank you".

He looked around. It was a small tunnel that the prisoners took when they were having a fight like this before.

I was three when Luna abolished such practices. She found it rather barbaric and very inhumane watching the prisoners try to kill themselves while they fought for freedom.

"Why were you here with Devlin?" He suddenly asked.

He pushed a wet strand of hair out of his face before bringing his eyes back to me, with his eyebrows lifted, he waited for my answer to arrive.

However, I did not want to answer, I had no reason to explain myself to him. I wa